Check Yourself with Lateral Reading: Crash Course Navigating Digital Information #3
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Date: 2022-04-04
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Moi
My first thought after watching this video is that lateral reading (aka research) is very time intensive. It also requires someone to be willful, awake/energetic, not too busy, or otherwise in a mental or physical state that permits them to care about the information. So lateral readers need to cognitively judge what they're reading, and weigh the inconvenience of researching the article to just moving on. It sounds exhausting. I have perfectionistic tendencies, so the stress of realizing that I -should- laterally research everything looms irrationally over my thoughts.
At least in America, IMHO, I don't think the public was ever taught to prioritize information searching and review as it relates to our everyday lives. Not really. We might do research for articles and essays and papers and proposals. The -important things in life- as defined by in school and society. But analyzing the mundane world around us? We seem very guillable and childish. And many people who aren't financially secure are very stressed from trying to live, and are less likely to take the time to cognitively engage some media.
My takeaway: take one subject you care about and spend time engaging, and use lateral reading to learn more. It's a skill, and if we can apply it to low-stakes subjects first then it hopefully wouldn't generate the anxiety that keeps so many adults from engaging in -school stuff- because they're still fleeing from school traumas and stresses.
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My first thought after watching this video is that lateral reading (aka research) is very time intensive. It also requires someone to be willful, awake/energetic, not too busy, or otherwise in a mental or physical state that permits them to care about the information. So lateral readers need to cognitively judge what they're reading, and weigh the inconvenience of researching the article to just moving on. It sounds exhausting. I have perfectionistic tendencies, so the stress of realizing that I -should- laterally research everything looms irrationally over my thoughts.
At least in America, IMHO, I don't think the public was ever taught to prioritize information searching and review as it relates to our everyday lives. Not really. We might do research for articles and essays and papers and proposals. The -important things in life- as defined by in school and society. But analyzing the mundane world around us? We seem very guillable and childish. And many people who aren't financially secure are very stressed from trying to live, and are less likely to take the time to cognitively engage some media.
My takeaway: take one subject you care about and spend time engaging, and use lateral reading to learn more. It's a skill, and if we can apply it to low-stakes subjects first then it hopefully wouldn't generate the anxiety that keeps so many adults from engaging in -school stuff- because they're still fleeing from school traumas and stresses.
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Timothy
I wish Mortimer Adler were alive to see this series.
Great content. I really need to check the sources of this curricula. Whoever put this together is really shining a light on the shadows of our times. So much of the best work is done in teams nowadays. This looks like a huge collaborative effort by a bunch of smart minds. (Must be Hank.
. I kid)
David Brooks said tonight on PBS Newshour - quoting some historical research that the printing press was thought in it's time to be a tool for peace since people would be able to communicate better. Instead, it became a weapon to incite bloody religious wars. This sort of meta-reading and meta-thinking needs to be shared and taught in all-out schools (and my own 55 y. o. brain)
Thank you John Green. Thank you, Stanford, Poynter, and Google even for making this possible (and everyone else. and I have to call out Mortimer Adler again. I really feel his ghost in these videos.
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I wish Mortimer Adler were alive to see this series.
Great content. I really need to check the sources of this curricula. Whoever put this together is really shining a light on the shadows of our times. So much of the best work is done in teams nowadays. This looks like a huge collaborative effort by a bunch of smart minds. (Must be Hank.
. I kid)
David Brooks said tonight on PBS Newshour - quoting some historical research that the printing press was thought in it's time to be a tool for peace since people would be able to communicate better. Instead, it became a weapon to incite bloody religious wars. This sort of meta-reading and meta-thinking needs to be shared and taught in all-out schools (and my own 55 y. o. brain)
Thank you John Green. Thank you, Stanford, Poynter, and Google even for making this possible (and everyone else. and I have to call out Mortimer Adler again. I really feel his ghost in these videos.
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Darrell
This falls in line with what Dr Bart Erhman professor of theology at UNC at Chapel Hill, teaches. To read the gospels horizontally not vertically. It will come as a surprise at how many inconsistencies are in the gospel accounts. Dr. Dale Martin of Yale Theology class, advocates Dr Erhman's teaching also.
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This falls in line with what Dr Bart Erhman professor of theology at UNC at Chapel Hill, teaches. To read the gospels horizontally not vertically. It will come as a surprise at how many inconsistencies are in the gospel accounts. Dr. Dale Martin of Yale Theology class, advocates Dr Erhman's teaching also.
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Christin
Isn't it important to mention that -mainstream media- refers to the 6 companies that own 90% of media and which have specific financial interests in controlling and repeating certain kinds of information? Are we just going to ignore the manufacturing of consent in this series?
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Isn't it important to mention that -mainstream media- refers to the 6 companies that own 90% of media and which have specific financial interests in controlling and repeating certain kinds of information? Are we just going to ignore the manufacturing of consent in this series?
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Russ
It's not the mistakes that are so insidious. It's the outright lies, propaganda, political agendas, and biases that -respected- institutions have. Yes, I'm falling more and more into the cynical camp. News flash: it's justified.
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It's not the mistakes that are so insidious. It's the outright lies, propaganda, political agendas, and biases that -respected- institutions have. Yes, I'm falling more and more into the cynical camp. News flash: it's justified.
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Cas
First thing I saw when I started this Playlist was: apple product on the desk and the animations are with Apple toolbars as well. Coincidence? I think not. Is it okay though? I'd say, yes. It's just good to notice I guess.
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First thing I saw when I started this Playlist was: apple product on the desk and the animations are with Apple toolbars as well. Coincidence? I think not. Is it okay though? I'd say, yes. It's just good to notice I guess.
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Meg
Hey, don't know if anybody will see this but if you need help with your tracker/assignment then this is to help you. 4: 53 is the answer to the 1st #2 question then 5: 18 is the 2nd answer. The last answer is at 10: 20
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Hey, don't know if anybody will see this but if you need help with your tracker/assignment then this is to help you. 4: 53 is the answer to the 1st #2 question then 5: 18 is the 2nd answer. The last answer is at 10: 20
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Joseph
Did you coin -reading laterally-? I've been doing this for awhile and never thought of it in literal terms, but more in a perspective term. I did it to read across arguments made from different perspectives.
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Did you coin -reading laterally-? I've been doing this for awhile and never thought of it in literal terms, but more in a perspective term. I did it to read across arguments made from different perspectives.
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Carter
Nice, can't wait until I get to the Using Wikipedia video! That site is a hugely underappreciated public amenity and probably the best tool we have for making sense of the world in today's information flood.
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Nice, can't wait until I get to the Using Wikipedia video! That site is a hugely underappreciated public amenity and probably the best tool we have for making sense of the world in today's information flood.
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XxPlayMakerxX131
Learned a method of convincing people instead of showing what you gain by doing -x-
You should tell them what they will lose if they don-t learn or do -x-
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Learned a method of convincing people instead of showing what you gain by doing -x-
You should tell them what they will lose if they don-t learn or do -x-
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